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  • Published: 16 March 2021
  • ISBN: 9781984803405
  • Imprint: Berkley
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 304
  • RRP: $16.99

Ralph Compton Ride the Hammer Down



In this racing new installment in bestseller Ralph Compton's the Gunfighter series, Marshal John Beck is a man who has spent his career dispensing justice throughout the West, but now the justice is personal.

In this racing new installment in bestseller Ralph Compton's the Gunfighter series, Marshal John Beck is a man who has spent his career dispensing justice throughout the West, but now the justice is personal.

Marshal John Beck was the law in the dangerous town of Mother Lode, Arizona. On his own, he'd managed to keep bandits, rustlers, and desperados at bay. It was a tough job for one man to handle, but he made it work...until the day Bram Hogan and his Brickhouse Gang got the drop on the lawman.

They beat Beck to within an inch of his life and dropped him in the desert where nothing but a slow, painful death awaited him. But the gang underestimated Beck. Even at his lowest point, he found a way to survive.

Now, he's coming back and anyone who stands against him is going to ride the hammer down to the grave.

  • Published: 16 March 2021
  • ISBN: 9781984803405
  • Imprint: Berkley
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 304
  • RRP: $16.99

Praise for Ralph Compton Ride the Hammer Down

Praise for Ralph Compton

"Compton writes in the style of popular Western novelists like Louis L'Amour and Zane Grey...thrilling stories of Western legend."--The Huntsville Times (AL)

"Compton may very well turn out to be the greatest Western writer of them all....Very seldom in literature have the legends of the Old West been so vividly painted."--The Tombstone Epitaph

"If you like Louis L'Amour, you'll love Ralph Compton."--Quanah Tribune-Chief (TX)

"Compton offers readers a chance to hit the trail and not even end up saddle sore."--Publishers Weekly